I have collected many obituaries of genealogical interest over the past twenty years.I will be posting them on this blog as time allows. The majority of these obituaries are from early Arkansas Baptist newspapers and have been transcribed as written.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Died at his late residence, near Oak Grove, Sebastian county, Ark., on the 12th day of August 1881, Curren Anderson, aged sixty four years and five months.
He was born and raised in Alalbama and moved to south-west Arkansas ans settled in Sevier (near Little River) county, and made a profession and joined a Missionary Baptist church at Burks school house in the year 1863, and moved to the neighborhood in which he died, in the year 1867, and became a member of the church at Oak Grove Baptist church. He acted as church clerk during his entire membership and was highly esteemed as a Christian and gentleman by his church and the community in which he lived. He died in peace and leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his loss. August 15, 1881- R.H. McConnell
Arkansas Evangel, August 24, 1881